'I came to the area about 1 year ago and certainly the growth, the incomes, the diversity, all the good stuff was apparent.

I've been an independent contractor in Springfield, Illinois for 8 months and have been a trades contractor for the last 4 years.

My family has had rentals almost 50 years.  

That said, it's nearly impossible to find a decent option under $300k in those locations.If you have an apetite for rolling the dice and saying "I'm so glad I bought this ten years ago!"

Looking for advice and suggestions for a Roth IRA Custodian I'm looking to roll over a traditional IRA to a Self-directed Roth by the end of the year, and use that for my investing.

Quote from @Gregory Schwartz: A local agent recently got sued for calling an old client who was on the Do Not Call list.

Or you could add 5% per year to the 160k and give it to your brother when all is said and done.

Im using Daniel Hyman's service this year, MyOnlineAccount, its nice being able to just upload all my docs in the cloud to get this started.

(I have less than ONE request per tenant per year, some nothing in 5 years)There's lots of was to manage your rentals, but being organized is paramount.

These guys did this for over 20 years .. it was determined that they actually made less than 12 loans in the whole time bringing in Millions of dollars 10k at a time to small of an amount to sue over..